Posts Tagged ‘botnet’
OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet can be. Previously, we wrote that OSX.Flashback was generating money for its authors by displaying advertisements on compromised computers. We now have a m...
OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012Worth Reading: Confessions of a botnet operator
Monday, May 14th, 2012Pastebin Shares Botnet Source Code
Monday, May 7th, 2012
Few days back, we found another Pastebin entry that contains a source which looks to be malicious botnet code. As I wrote in my earlier blog, malware authors also use Pastebin to trade botnet kits. Many times, snippets of a botnet help researchers understand the workings of the botnet and write detections for it. The Read more...
Flashback botnet is a cash cow
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
We have all heard about the Flashback malware targeting machines running OS X and enslaving them into a botnet, but not a lot of attention has been given to the ultimate goal of the criminals behind i...
Five Shocking Statistics From The Latest Internet Threat Report
Monday, April 30th, 2012Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012OS X Lamadai: Flashback isn’t the only Mac malware threat
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
The Flashback trojan has been all over the news lately, but it is not the only Mac malware threat out there at the moment. A few weeks ago, we published a technical analysis of OSX/Lamadai.A, the Mac OS X payload of a multi-platform attack exploiting the Java vulnerability CVE-2011-3544 to infect its victims. OSX/Lamadai.A has ... Read More...
Latest SpyEye Botnet Active and Cheaper
Friday, April 20th, 2012
On April 16, we found a Pastebin entry selling the latest version of the infamous SpyEye botnet (Version 1.3.48) for a much lower price than we’ve seen elsewhere. (This botnet is mainly used to steal banking information.) The quote was just US$150 including three months hosting, after that it’s $15 per month. This version was Read more...





